Leaving notes on cars with Trump and MAGA bumper stickers can be fun!

#LunarEclipse

I could start a feed of stories about cops using Flock to stalk and terrorize current and former partners and I would never run out of material. https://www.404media.co/florida-deputy-of-the-year-used-flock-to-stalk-ex-held-gun-in-her-mouth-did-a-nazi-salute/

@david_chisnall That same guy allegedly said that 640K was enough for anyone (but has denied saying that).

Curiously, Paul Baran (one of the inventors of packet switching) told me about writing a proposal that required a computer with a whopping 32 KB of memory. It was reviewed by John von Neumann, who didn't think you would need more than 16 B. Paul replied that, if his programmers were as capable as Dr. von Neumann, he could get by with 16 KB too.

@sl007 @randahl

If that were to happen, they'd have to change the name of the European Union to "NATO, but only the countries no American thinks about half the time"

thank you🤗

@98Percent in New Zealand???

What a man is worth to one of Russia's big war-recruiting firms depends on where he's registered: the commission is 150k rubles in Yaroslavl vs. 1M for a Muscovite. An iStories correspondent took one of these jobs for a new investigation. https://meduza.io/en/feature/2026/08/27/istories-investigation-shows-how-russia-recruits-soldiers-for-its-war-against-ukraine-private-firms-targeted-telegram-ads-and-phone-numbers-bought-for-as-little-as-12-cents-apiece

@javierarmentia

@evacide Here in San Francisco, we have not one, but two Flock lobbyists on the committee that controls local Democratic Party endorsements. And it's going about as you would expect:
https://missionlocal.org/2026/08/san-francisco-democratic-party-manny-yekutiel-endorsement/

RE: https://universeodon.com/@auscandoc/117169516552441518

*slow clap*

the Beaverton going where The Onion wasn’t fast enough to go

@AnarchoNinaWrites I give it 6-8 weeks before we learn the tax money went to Honest Kushner’s Nepalese Construction LLC.

Wait, you mean the trillions we gave a military that can't pass a basic audit were wasted? And our military is basically an expensive movie prop we can't afford to use? How?!

NEW: You don't see this everyday. Wyoming GOP voters rejected a ton of Republicans who wanted to crack down on voting.

They ousted nearly all members of House Elections Committee, incubator of new restrictions.

And: SoS primary was won by a man who rejects fraud claims + defends election workers. https://boltsmag.org/wyoming-gop-primary-secretary-of-state-freedom-caucus/

@sundogplanets I love that so many of us can do this. I just peeked.

I suppose this weekend is as good as any for a Tim Curry marathon. Rocky Horror, clue, Muppet treasure island, the color of magic, doom runners, and a bad audience recording of his run on spamalot.

It’s been almost 90 days since the American people have seen or heard from Mitch McConnell.

We’re still paying his salary.

Judge again blocks #Trump #MailBallot executive order in ruling that’s likely to be swiftly appealed

#law #judiciary #SCOTUS #Constitution #states #federalism #ElectionLaw #ElectionInterference #VotingRights #midterms #elections #VoterSuppression #BigLie #ConspiracyTheories #WhiteSupremacy #coup #SeditiousConspiracy #USpol
https://apnews.com/article/trump-voting-mail-ballots-democrats-lawsuits-15cf1ec7dcdb8211bf6b624b75a7f4ab?utm_source=app&utm_medium=iOS_share&utm_campaign=more_org_joinmastodon_app_shareactionextension

@libreoffice Completely agree, and I will always recommend ODF for saving office documents. I use it for all my own documents.

If we want to own our own ideas, data, and standards, then we have to reprogram our thinking that compatibility with MS is more important.

Redefine the narrative. Build on ODF as OUR standard. And let MS catch up with us.

I feel better now. :-)

#OpenSource #OpenStandards #ODF #OpenDocumentFoundation #DigitalSovereignty